`Newspaper Of The Year'

The Jewish News is named the best in Michigan.

potential.
"I invite the entire community to knell
with pride in this statewide achievement."

DAVID SACHS

Senior Copy Editor

C

onsider these snapshots of the
Detroit Jewish community:
Editorial Honors
• Presidential candidate John
In addition to Newspaper of the Year, the
Kerry has local in-laws — his brother
JNwon the following awards:
Cam is a convert to Judaism whose wife's
• Second place for General Excellence.
family are longtime Detroiters.
The Iowa journalists who judged the com-
• Nineteen-year-old Micah, a deter-
pletion remarked, "Strong editorial pages
mined newcomer to college, overcomes
and advertising, crisp layout."
learning disabilities though a mainstream-
Publisher Horwitz
• First place for Editorial Pages, edited
ing-mentoring program at Oakland
by Robert Sklar and Contributing Editor
University
Jonathan Friendly. "Good content that
, • A young heroin user finds spirituality
pulls no punches," said the journalist-
and, ultimately, freedom from addiction.
judges.
• A local Jewish high school blossoms
• Second place for Design, supervised by
with its first graduating class.
JN Creative Services Production Director
• In Ann Arbor, Jewish and Arab
Michelle Sheridan and Creative Director
women create a dialogue for understand-
Deborah Schultz. "Good mix of ads and
ing.
stories," observed the judges.
These vignettes from the pages of the
• First place for News Story, Diana
Detroit Jewish News helped win the JN
Lieberman, "Dream Come True," about
"Newspaper of the Year" designation
the first graduating class of the Jewish
from the Michigan Press Association.
Academy of Metropolitan Detroit; May 9,
The Pi last won the award in 1999.
Editor Sklar
2003. Lieberman, a former JN staff writer,
Competing statewide against weekly
continues to contribute as a freelancer.
newspapers of similar circulation, the JN
• Second place for News Story, Staff Writer Sharon
won a dozen awards for content — the best showing
Luckerman, "John Kerry's Jewish Brother"; Feb. 13,
of any paper in its class — as well as three awards for
2004.
advertising. ,
• Second place for Feature Story, Sharon Luckerman,
"It's an honor to win so many individual and staff
"New Guy On Campus," about a courageous student
awards," said JN Editor Robert A. Sklar.
at Oakland University; March 19, 2004.
"The Newspaper of the Year award is a tribute not
• Second place, Sharon Luckerman, Enterprise
only to the staff, but also the Detroit Jewish communi-
Reporting, "Refusing To Be Silenced," about Ann Arbor
ty: We're well aware that our readers and advertisers
women bridging the Arab-Israeli divide; July 11, 2003.
believe in us and help us be that all-important mirror
• Honorable Mention for Enterprise Reporting,
of the community — in all its diversity, conflict and

Luckerman

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Lieberman

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Sheridan

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Schwartz

Diana Lieberman, "Jewish Voices In Education," a
focus on Jewish educators and administrators commit-
ted to public education; Aug. 15, 2003.
• First place for Feature Picture, Staff Photographer
Angie Baan, "Fighting Addiction"; Jan. 30, 2004.
• Third place for Special Section JN Platinum maga-
zine, Carla Schwartz, editor, Linda Bachrack, associate
editor. "Great use of photos," said the judges.
• Honorable Mention for Special Section, Celebrate
2004, a fingertip reference guide for planning lifecycle
celebrations; Alan Hitsky, editor.

Advertising Awards-

The IN also won three awards in the 2004 Michigan
Press Association Advertising Contest. Sales Manager
Dean Dimitrieski and Inside Sales Manager Meg
Lyczak head up the JNs team of 18 account executives,
managers and coordinators. The JN's nine-member
Creative Services design staff creates the ads.
The advertising awards include:
• First place for Best Automobile Ad.
• First place for Best Online Promotion.
• Third place for Best Classified Ad Section.
"We're very pleased and honored by the remarkable
recognition that we've received through the Michigan
Press Association," said Arthur Horwitz, JN publisher
and president of Southfield-based Jewish Renaissance
Media, which owns the paper.
"To be selected as the Newspaper of the Year in our
category reaffirms for our readers, our advertisers and
our community that we are bringing them week-in and
week-out the highest quality and credibility that they
can find anywhere.
"It also is a demonstration to our staff that their hard
work and professionalism are recognized and appreciat-
ed by a panel of judges that is accustomed to knowing
quality when it sees it."

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Hitsky

Schultz

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